The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride

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to the space slightly above my left shoulder the way he always did, as though

actice absorbing that part

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in the corridor w

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without taki

was black wit

e door shut like a lid

ed at the other

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d at the forest's edge three days after arriving

d simply been removed, the way y

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ouldn't be afraid of losing a life

he dark when the carriag

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a man who had never needed volume to comman

urn

the window. I couldn't see his face

ands, black and cracked and faintly glowing

tating a fact, the way you

ld me to look away. Sub

is eyes

st like surprise - the kind that only happens to people

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